Tech preview: new animation features in Maya

New Autodesk teaser video shows motion trails and timing beads to control animation in the viewport.

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Q&A: Alex Sandri, Maya/mental ray guru

He spent ten years hunting bugs in the Maya/mental ray pipeline ­- but his new online masterclass will spare you that pain.

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Tutorial: Global Illumination Texture Baking & Lightmapping in Maya

How to bake global illumination and ambient occlusion to textures in Maya.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

New OnLive demo shows Maya running on an iPad

Games streaming service broadens horizons to serve 3D software to mobile devices over the cloud.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

ZSwitcher: use Maya shortcuts inside ZBrush

Now shipping: new dRaster plug-in enables users to adopt Maya and Mudbox workflow in ZBrush.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Maya's Camera Sequencer

In this DVD, John presents the new Camera Sequencer in Autodesk Maya, a toolset that allows users to create camera shots in a non-linear editing-style timeline within Maya.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

cebas releases finalRender R2 for Maya

Updated Maya renderer adds 'ShaderGrind' system to make authoring accessible to non-TDs.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

Introduction to Maya Fluid Effects

This DVD consists of five stand-alone lessons that cover various techniques using Maya's fluid dynamics.

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Autodesk releases updates to 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage

Advantage Packs add iray renderer for 3ds Max; Composite, MatchMover and multiphysics for Softimage.

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Video tutorials: Animation in 3ds Max and Maya

Get started with animation layers in 3ds Max and Maya with two new Mixamo video tutorials.

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Modular Character Rigging System for Maya

Innovative new animation and rigging system for Maya.

Monday, August 30th, 2010

New Versions of RenderMan Studio and RenderMan for Maya

RenderMan for Maya 4.0 and RenderMan Studio 3.0 coming Fall 2010.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Tutorial: Multipass rendering in Maya and Mental Ray

Gustavo Eggert Boehs goes through a workflow for multi-pass rendering and compositing with Maya/Nuke.

Monday, July 12th, 2010